Cheap Quicken 2005 Premier Home & Business (Software) (Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000) Price

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Customer Reviews of Quicken 2005 Premier Home & Business

I actually like Quicken 2005....
Ok, I see a ton of bad reviews for Quicken 2005 PH&B, but I actually like it. I think the big difference between me and a lot of other people here is that I have never used Quicken before (or any other Quicken-type software). So I never had to go through an upgrade process or deal with anything like that. If you are starting fresh, I'd have to recommend Quicken 2005 to you. Now, I understand that Quicken is using the new OFX format. My credit cards are using this format, but my banks are not. So I have to enter some stuff in on my own. That's fine with me. Most of my stuff comes through the credit cards anyways. <
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>I've never experienced any bugs or incorrect calculations. The first thing I did after installing the software was update it to Release 3 so maybe that's why. I'd suggest that everybody does the same. <
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>Quicken 2005 is very powerful and very organized and I enjoy using it.

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More glitches from Intuit
I'd already purchased Quicken 2005 when I read these reviews, so I put it on my laptop so that it wouldn't mess up my previous versions on the desktop machine. It synced perfectly with my bank--once. Now it says "invalid PIN" for my bank, although the PIN is not invalid; it's still the same one with which I can access the account otherwise. <
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>Chalk up another glitch for this program, and beware: it may work once, but it won't work again. Sigh.

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Lack of competition evident in way Intuit treats customers
I've used Quicken since 1989 (the DOS version). Through the years, I've upgraded when Intuit offered significant improvements. I bought Quicken 2001 to be able to archive data online, a feature that was discontinued a couple of months after my purchase. Also attractive was being able to download transactions directly from a bank or credit card company. I've been doing fine with 2001, but have been bombarded recently with notices from Intuit that 2001 is being euthanized so that all of us for whom it works perfectly well must fork over another $70 for 2005. After three telephone calls trying to understand East Indian English, I finally got instructions to download 2005 with a $10 crumb of a discount for my 15 years of loyalty. One of the first screens insisted that I buy Intuit's online bill pay service. I like to know what a prospective purchase is going to cost, so I spent a half hour navigating various screens trying to find out. I got to the place where you click "Buy" without ever getting a price. It's the old trick of having you type your autobiography before they tell you, in the hopes you'll be so tired you'll go for whatever they ask in the way of a price. I then uploaded my data from my backup disks only to find that 2005 had deleted seven months of transactions from my major credit card. I am now faced with collecting the paper statements and manually entering hundreds of transactions before I can even start messing with "Turtle Tax!" Intuit's attitude stinks. To them, we are a bunch of suckers whose pockets they can pick at will, and I am sick of it. I'm almost ready to switch to that M-M-M-Microsoft product! AAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!